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300,000

That's how many Twitter shares Ali Rowghani, the microblogging service's chief operating officer, sold when a lockup was lifted. Rowghani, who was among early shareholders banned from selling for six months after the IPO, unloaded the stock for a profit of about $9.9 million as it neared an all-time low. Some insiders, including CEO Dick Costolo and co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, pledged to hold their shares as a vote of confidence in the San Francisco company.

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"We are divorcing before getting married. We were not totally in agreement, to put it mildly, on how to share the responsibility."

Maurice Levy, CEO of Publicis Groupe of Paris, on the collapse of his company's planned $35 billion merger with New York's Omnicom Group, which would have created the world's largest advertising company. The deal fell apart when the boards couldn't agree on key management roles, such as who would appoint the chief financial officer. Publicis owns the Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett agencies, while Omnicom owns BBDO, among others.